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SUMMARY

OF

CHRISTIAN FAITH AND PRACTICE, CH

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1 OF

CHRISTIAN FAITH & PRACTICE,

CONFIRMED BY

REFERENCES TO THE TEXT

OF

Holy Scripture;

COMPARED WITH THE

LITURGY, ARTICLES, AND HOMILIES,

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND;

and illustrated by

EXTRACTS FROM THE CHIEF OF THOSE WORKS WHICH RECEIVED THE SANCTION OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY,

FROM THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION,

TO THE FINAL REVISION OF THE ESTABLISHED FORMULARIES.

BY THE

REV. E. J. BURROW, D.D. F.R.S. & F.L.S.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR F. C. & J. RIVINGTON,

NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

AND NO. 3, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL

1822.

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By the Divine Laws, in general, are meant, those which have been delivered to mankind by the authority of God, as a rule and criterion by which good is to be discerned from evil, virtue from vice, what is profitable from what is unprofitable, what is to be done, from what is to be left undone ; or for some special and temporary purpose: the end and object of such enactments being the glory of God, as well as the present and eternal happiness of mankind. These laws are partly inscribed on the mind and conscience of men, and belong to the Law of Nature: but they are extant at large in the books of Moses and of the Gospel; and the sanctions under which they require implicit submission and universal obedience are more or less clearly revealed in all the inspired writings of the Old and the New Testaments.

§ 2. Since Christians, under the reign of grace, are liberated from the yoke of the Mosaic ceremonial and judicial Law; and the obligation of that Law, which was given for an especial purpose, altogether ceased, when the purpose was fulfilled in the advent of the Messias-who, according to prophecy, sprang from the bosom of the Jewish nation-since this freedom from VOL. III.

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